Events at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library

The International Student Reception and the Humanities and Social Sciences Library at UiO welcomes you to a Valentine's day film screening of Crazy, Stupid, Love!

Do you want to learn another language outside the classroom walls? You have the opportunity to do that by joining our language café!

Music is seen as the most immaterial of the arts, and recorded music as a progress of dematerialization—an evolution from physical discs to invisible digits. In Decomposed, Kyle Devine offers another perspective.

Do you want to learn another language outside the classroom walls? You have the opportunity to do that by joining our language café!

Open talk by Professor Lloyd Pratt, Oxford! How does Frederick Douglass's account of plain reading fit with his investment in rhetorical play elsewhere in his public discourse? Pratt also examines how the relative inattention to African American intellectual history in recent calls for new modes of reading in the humanities has undersold the complexity of African American thinking on the relation of reading to politics.

Do you want to learn another language outside the classroom walls? You have the opportunity to do that by joining our language café!

Life as a student or gründer can sometimes feel both overwhelming and chaotic. Therefore INSJ and FOP invite you to take part in a different and inspiring event to give you the tools for how to make it without losing your mind.

Literary Visions assembles, in English translation, more than 40 prose texts of modern Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and Hebrew fiction that shed light on modern Middle Eastern lifeworlds.

Get an update on what is currently happening in Kashmir, in this seminar with psychological and medical anthropologist Dr. Saiba Varma.

Why did the twelfth-century canons at the Lateran church in Rome claim the presence of the Ark of the Covenant inside their high altar? Eivor Oftestad's new book argues that the claim responded to new challenges in the aftermath of the First Crusade in 1099. Welcome to book launch! 

Illinois State University Professor of History Andrew Hartman is currently at work on his third book, "Karl Marx in America". According to Hartman, to read and think about Karl Marx is to grapple with the modern world that capitalism has made. 

Six years before the Egyptian revolution of January 2011, many young Egyptians had resorted to blogging as a means of self-expression and literary creativity. This resulted in the emergence of a new literary genre: the autofictional blog. Welcome to the launch of Teresa Pepe's new book: Blogging from Egypt.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. We apologize for the inconvenience. New date and place: Monday March 18 at Auditorium 1, Eilert Sundts hus. More info soon!

This is the event for everyone interested in medieval music and music history! The new book Polyphony in Paris, focuses on the history of medieval music in thirteenth-century Paris, the ways in which music was created and the contexts in which it was performed.

In this edition of the PhD (and Postdoc :) ) Breakfast Club, we are discussing how to write a grant proposal. Free Breakfast included so sign up below. Start your day well!

The Sahel region, the narrow stripe of land along the southern border of the Saharan Desert constitutes a geopolitical corridor. Since years, it confronts its regional actors and the international community with a vast set of severe challenges including extreme poverty and lack of development, weak state structures, human and arms trafficking and terrorist insurgencies. 

Book launch: In the new book The Steppe Tradition in International Relations. Russians, Turks and European State Building 4000 BCE–2017 CE, Einar Wigen and Iver B. Neumann give a full treatment of the steppe tradition’s role in early European state formation.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year… to discuss foreign affairs! And what better topic to tackle than Turkey. As you explore the complexities of Turkey, SIFA will provide free coffee and lunch! Welcome!

"It’s one of the greatest, most audacious, most original documentaries ever made" writes Richard Brody in The New Yorker.  Chronicle of a Summer is a documentary about the everyday lives of ordinary Parisians, done in the style of cinéma vérité, filmed in 1961.